Re: Re: org-indent-mode and visual-line-mode

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Nov 20, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Matt Price wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 08:28 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> personally, I never use visual-line-mode, mainly because cursor  
>> motion
>> becomes unpredictable to me (down doe not get me into the next line,
>> so for example keyboard macros are much harder to make to  
>> consistently).
>>
>> That said, I would expect that what you are describing should work,
>> and my memory is also that it used to work - after all, I implemented
>> not only line-prefix, but also wrap-prefix in org-indent-mode.  I am
>> quite sure that this used to work.
>>
>> I am not sure how to proceed.  Someone would have to bisect Emacs to
>> find which commit changed this behavior.   Or maybe at lease someone
>> can try with a vanilla 23.1 Emacs? If it works there, we might have
>> enough to file a bug report.
>>
>
> I just tried it on the ubuntu karmic emacs23 packages.  I get the same
> behaviour i was seeing before.  In case my description is  
> misleading, i
> just made a couple of screenshots and posted them here:
> http://www.derailleur.org/screenshots/
> one shows some quick text when indent-mode is enabled, the other shows
> it with indent-mode disabled.
>
> anyway if you have any ideas how i might help that'd be great --
> bisecting the code is probably beyond what i can easily do but i could
> try to dig around a bit somehow.
>
> thanks - i appreciate how much effort you put into this carsten! -

It clearly seems to me that this is a problem with the Emacs redisplay  
engine.  Because when I press C-l (control-ell) several times, than  
the line actually
snaps into visual line mode.....

- Carsten